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REPORT 



EAST TENNESSEE UELIEF ASSOCIATION 



AT KNOXTILLE; 



TABULAR STATEMENTS FROM THE GENERAL AGENT, ETC. 



BY 



THOMAS W. HUMES, 



CHAIRMAN OK THE COMMITTEE. 



TO WHICH ARE APPENDED 



THE PROCEEDINGS COMMEMORATIVE OF THE DEATH 



EDWARD EYEUETT. 



K N X Y I L L E : 

PRINTED FOR THE ASSOCIATION. 

1865. 









Collins, Pr,, 70.5 Jayae St., Philad'a. 



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Nearly twelve months have elapsed since the organization of 
this Society for the relief of the people of East Tennessee, who 
have been reduced to destitution of the means of sustaining life 
by the ravages of war. According to custom, it would be ex- 
pected that, at the end of that period, reports should be made by 
those who are intrusted witTi the direction and control of the 
affairs of the Association, concerning the manner in which their 
work has been performed, the present condition of the Society's 
funds and operations, and the prospect of its future usefulness. 
It is considered advisable, as the beginning of a new civil year 
has arrived, that these reports shall now be made, and anticipate 
by more than a month the first anniversary of the Society's 
formation. 

There is scarcely any portion of our country that in former 
times has been more abundant in all that is necessary to the sus- 
tenance of life, and in much that contributes to its comfort, than 
East Tennessee. But in the autumn of 1863, a number of causes, 
springing out of the present war, united to produce within it an 
unusual dearth. Hon. N. G. Taylor, moved by the spectacle of 
the want and distress among its people, and foreseeing that they 
would soon be greatly increased, voluntarily entered upon a mis- 
sion to Northern and Eastern States, with the view of obtaining 
relief for the sufferers. His appeals were not unsuccessful. And 
as the prospect of further and larger usefulness in the enterprise 



he had undertaken opened before him, it became desirable that 
a benevolent and patriotic Society should be organized at home, 
which should co-operate with him in his praiseworthy work. 
Accordingly on the 8th of February, 1864, a public meeting of 
citizens was held in the Methodist church at Knoxville, for the 
purpose of forming an Association to receive contributions for 
the relief of needy people in this region of country and judiciously 
to administer them. O. P. Temple, Esq., was appointed Chairman 
and John M. Fleming, Secretary. Upon consultation, a written 
Constitution was adopted, and the following officers for the year 
were nominated and chosen : Eev. T. W. Humes, President ; 
M. M. Miller, Treasurer, and J, M. Fleming, Esq., Secretary. 
An Executive Committee was also elected, which, after certain 
changes, finally consisted of the following gentlemen: "William 
Heiskell, Samuel E. Eodgers, Eev. W. G. Brownlow, E. D. Jou- 
rolmon, George M. White, John Baxter, J. M. Fleming, 0. P. 
Temple, David Eichardson, and T. W. Humes. Hon. N. G. Tay- 
lor was appointed Agent abroad. 

At the first meeting of the Executive Committee, G, M. White 
was appointed Secretary, and Messrs. G. M. Hazen and J. M. 
Meek were elected Agents to purchase, at eligible points, supplies 
of provisions and superintend their transportation to Knoxville. 
A few weeks subsequently Mr. Hazen went to Cincinnati and 
New York city upon this mission. Soon after his departure, 
Messrs. Frederick Collins and Lloyd P. Smith, of Philadelphia, 
a Committee of the E. T. Eelief Society of Pennsylvania, arrived 
at Cincinnati, and, through the instrumentality of Mr. Thomas G. 
Odiorne, expended eight thousand one hundred and six j%% dol- 
lars in the purchase of articles of food for distribution by this 
Society, and the payment of the freight upon them to Nashville. 
From that place the U. S. Government gave them free transport- 
ation to Knoxville. Messrs. Collins and Smith came in person 
to this city and had a full and free interchange of opinions with 
the Executive Committee, in an interview that was mutually 



agreeable and encouraging. It was a source of muoli gratification 
to the officers of this Society that these gentlemen, so intelligent 
capable, and experienced in business, and in other respects well 
qualified for the task, undertook at the cost of valuable time and 
much discomfort, to visit the central point from which their gifts 
must be distributed. They had thus an opportunity of acquaint- 
ing themselves upon the theatre of the reported destitution, with 
interesting and important facts bearing upon the subject. The 
report of their visit and observations to the Society which com- 
missioned them has been printed, and given a limited circulation. 
It has no doubt rendered good service in confirming the repre- 
sentations which Col.vTaylor had made of the wants of the people 
of East Tennessee. 

During their stay at Knoxville they communicated, in a letter 
to the Chairman of the Executive Committee, their views of the 
proper method of distributing the supplies given to the Society. 
The plan proposed in this letter was approved by the Committee, 
and has been adhered to by the General and Local Agents with 
as much strictness as they have found practicable in the circum- 
stances. (See A, in Appendix.) 

On the 26th of March Mr. A. G. Jackson was unanimously 
chosen General Agent, and entered at once upon his duties. 
About the same time the first instalment of supplies arrived at 
Knoxville. These furnished for some weeks a sufficiency to 
meet the urgent wants of the people, so far as means of commu- 
nication allowed. In the mean time Mr. Hazen had extended 
his visit to New York city, where he and Col. Taylor received 
from the Executive Committee of the Boston E. T. Relief Society 
through its Chairman, Hon. Edward Everett, forty thousand dol- 
lars for the purchase of supplies. To this sum Mr. Taylor added 
twenty-six hundred and six dollars of moneys contributed from 
the State of Maine and paid to him by Gov. Cony, of that State. 
With these funds Mr. Hazen returned to Cincinnati and expended 
of them twenty-eight thousand one hundred and ninety-eight ,Yo 



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dollars for various articles, principally flour and bacon, which he 
imraediatelj shipped to Nashville. At that city some difficulty 
occurred in regard to the payment of the freight, which threat- 
ened to become embarrassing. Joseph S. Fowler, Esq., kindly 
and promptly interposed in behalf of the Society, and advanced 
for it about two thousand dollars, which was, however, very soon 
reimbursed by the purchasing agent. The thoughtful and friendly 
regard shown by Mr. Fowler in this instance as at other times, 
for the interests of the Society and the welfare of the destitute 
refugees, deserves commendation. Mr. Hazen bought his stores 
at an opportune period, when prices were low and shortly before 
their rapid advance; and a considerable sum was thus saved. 
Some loss occurred in the transportation of them, as has been 
unavoidably the case in every shipment to the General Agent ; 
but in the main they came to hand in good condition. After 
the election of the General Agent, auxiliary societies were formed 
in the different counties by their respective citizens. County 
Agents were appointed by him and confirmed by the Executive 
Committee. The people generally manifested a proper and laud- 
able interest in the subject ; and in some instances the County 
courts co-operated in the effort to make the fund contributed as 
useful as possible. The persons selected as County Agents have, 
with few exceptions, proved all that could have reasonably been 
desired and expected. The plan adopted by the Executive Com- 
mittee in the work of distribution was to apportion the supplies 
to the various counties according to their voting population. In 
some portions of the country, however, the scarcity was great 
and pressing, and other portions could not be reached. It was 
therefore thought advisable to direct that twice the quantity of 
supplies originally apportioned to several accessible counties, 
where the destitution was urgent, should be issued to them. 
This was done in the case of the counties of Knox, Sevier, Rhea, 
Roane, Campbell, Claiborne, Scott, and Morgan, and to the great 
relief of their citizens, without detriment to those of other coun- 



ties. For it was provided that the additional amounts given to 
the above-named counties should be only by anticipation of what 
would subsequently be apportioned to them, and they were duly 
placed to their debit, A list of the counties that formed auxiliary 
associations, with the names of their agents and the dates of their 
appointments, will be found annexed. (See B.) 

Mr. Hazen was succeeded about the last of March in his pur- 
chasing and forwarding agency by Mr. T. G. Odiorne, of Cincin- 
nati. This gentleman was favorably known to the Philadelphia 
Committee, and having had much experience in business in the 
city where it was thought expedient to make purchases for the 
Society, his services were solicited. In view of all the circum- 
stances he accepted the appointment, though not without reluc- 
tance. It should be mentioned to his praise that he declined, in 
advance, any pecuniary remuneration for his agency. lie was 
soon intrusted from the funds of the Society with more than 
thirty-five thousand dollars, to which the Philadelphia Society 
* added fifteen thousand dollars, sent from it to him directly. On 
the 25th of April, twenty thousand dollars, being a remittance 
by Mr. Everett from the Boston contributions, were forwarded 
to him. These sums, with others sent to him, Mr. Odiorne has 
faithfully disbursed, under directions of the General Agent and 
as the state of the market at Cincinnati invited or justified, and 
the opportunities of transportation allowed. The supplies bought 
by him up to the time when the low stage of water on the Ohio 
and Cumberland rivers would no longer permit him to forward, 
have, excepting such losses as seem almost necessary in the pre- 
sent state of transportation, arrived in safety. (See Statements 
marked C and D.) 

Early in May a large number of refugee families, driven by 
distress and want and the distractions of war, came from the 
upper counties of East Tennessee into Knoxville. At first the 
stream of migration seemed inclined to pass on to Chattanooga 
and Kashville. Night after night, men, women, and children, 



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numbering from twenty to forty, lay in the open air at tlie Eail- 
road Depot, awaiting the train of cars of the next day, to travel 
westward. The attention of Gen. Carter, Pro v. Mar. General, and 
other U. S. officials, was called to the subject, and through their 
kindly agency a building was appropriated to the use of these 
unhappy wanderers, as a temporary refuge and resting-place. 
Fresh accessions in crowds required additional accommodations, 
and Eev. Mr. Browulow, Treasury Agent, humanely interposed, 
and was the means of making further provision for their shelter 
and comfort. The order of General Sherman, discontinuing the 
issuance of rations from Government stores to destitute citizens, 
had recently been published. It became, therefore, especially 
the duty of this Society to provide the refugees at this point, 
some of whom had walked long distances, with means of suste- 
nance. While doing this, the Executive Committee desired to 
adhere as much as possible to their original purpose and plan of 
distribution to counties according to population. The policy 
was therefore adopted of encouraging the formation at Knoxville 
of auxiliary societies, composed of respectable and intelligent 
residents who were recently citizens of the more eastern counties 
from which the destitute refugees came. These organizations 
were accordingly made by gentlemen of the counties of Wash- 
ington, Greene, Cocke, Sullivan, and Hawkins. Agents for them 
respectively were appointed, who received the portions due their 
counties and distributed them to their people at this place. A 
very considerable quantity of provisions and clothing has thus 
been issued, which would have been sent within the territory of 
the counties and there dispensed, had not the way been barred 
by the military situation. The only counties to which no access 
has been possible with supplies, and which have had no agents 
provided at Knoxville, are Carter, Johnson, and Hancock. Some 
refugees from these have arrived here and had their wants re- 
lieved by the General Agent. 

As the summer advanced, the scarcity, which at the beginning 



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of the Society's operations was widespread, and especially in 
some localities was of a serious and distressing nature, became 
sensibly diminished. The reasonable objections entertained in 
some minds against the system of gratuitous gifts, because of the 
encouragement it affords to idleness and improvidence, the habit 
of dependence it creates in the mind, and other moral evils it is 
liable to entail, could not be permitted to rule when the question 
as regards a portion of the people of 'East Tennessee was one 
bordering upon life and death. Some of these families, it is true, 
had been in time of peace leading easy and thriftless lives, content 
with their humble position and small means, and unsolicitous to 
improve their condition; yet, by the bounty of a generous Provi- 
dence and through the general plenty of the land, having a suffi- 
ciency of food and clothing. But the prevailing scarcity of 
1863-4 was the result, not of the improvidence of the people, 
but of the calamitous influences of war. The country had been 
drained of its able male population to do military service, and 
diminished crops were the unavoidable consequence. And after 
the occupation of Knoxville in September, 1863, by Major-Gen. 
Burnside, and the march of Gen. Longstreet through East Ten- 
nessee a few months later, many of the people were left, not only 
with almost empty granaries and larders, but without the means 
of replenishing them. A portion of their claims against the 
Government for provisions and forage, which they were able to 
present in due form, were paid; but a vast amount of unadjusted 
claims remained. The circulation of U. S. Treasury notes, which 
soon became the only currency, was comparatively limited. Had 
it been much larger, the difficulty of obtaining transportation from 
a distance by the only line of railroads would still have interfered 
with the work of restoring the wonted abundance of the country. 
The scarcity was therefore just such an evil as might have befallen 
any people under the same or like circumstances. The aid that 
had been afforded for a time to some destitute families, by the 
Government, was withdrawn by the military order already spoken 



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of. And it is not difficult to perceive the importance of the 
movement for the relief of the people by voluntary contribu- 
tions, which Mr. Taylor prosecuted at the North and East, and 
in which this Society was a colaborer. Evidently the hand of 
the Divine Providence was in it. In the absence of supplies 
which have thus been obtained and distributed, there would have 
been no earthl}"- source of help and sustenance to which the more 
needy of the people could have looked with hope of succor. 
Their once prosperous neighbors could have given them little or 
no aid in their extremity, for they themselves, in numerous 
instances, were reduced to unusual straits in regard to nourish- 
ment. 

As little doubt is there that the relief afforded by this Society 
has been immense, as that the scarcity was great. Although the 
quantity of provisions dispensed to each person or family has 
been small, yet the assistance timely afforded to a multitude of 
cases, while it shut the door against starvation, or recovered the 
failing strength and capacity for labor, also gave encouragement 
to desponding minds and imbued the hearts of men with hope of 
a better day and more favorable circumstances. The Society 
has therefore reason to congratulate itself and its friends upon 
the result of its labors. All due praise should be given to the 
patriotic and benevolent donors of the funds which have been 
instrumental of such substantial blessings to the needy and suf- 
fering. But especially should thanks and praise be rendered to 
Him who is the giver of every good and perfect gift, and from 
whom all good counsels and works proceed, that it pleased Him 
to put it into the hearts of His servants to enter upon this under- 
taking and to prosper their faithful endeavors. (See Statements 
E and F.) 

It is worthy of notice that the contributions for the relief of 
East Tennessee have come mainly from a few sources. The 
principal of these was the Boston Society. Mr. Taylor's address 
in that city was eloquent and successful. The large amount of 



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$100,000, raised and appropriated by that Society, was due not 
less to the personal influence and persevering efforts of the Hon, 
Edward Everett, than to the friendly and charitable dispositions 
of the people of Massachusetts towards their fellow countrymen. 
The kindly and generous spirit manifested in the cheerfulness 
and munificence of these gifts should never be forgotten by the 
people of East Tennessee. The memory of it, and especially as 
shown by the chief benefactor in the case, deserves to be trans- 
mitted to their children with gratitude and love. 

The Philadelphia Society, which was earliest in this field of 
humane and Christian enterprise, is also entitled to a grateful 
remembrance. Although the sum of its benefactions was much 
less than that of the Boston Society, yet the hearty good-will and 
active sympathy manifested by it in this direction have been 
constant from the beginning; and the correspondence of the 
Chairman of its Executive Committee, L. P. Smith, Esq., with 
this Society, has tended to keep alive fraternal feelings and to 
encourage a diligent and hopeful prosecution of the work. It is 
an interesting fact in this connection, that perhaps the first effort 
for the relief of the people of East Tennessee was made in the 
city of Philadelphia, by Mrs. Hallowell and Mrs. Canby. They 
and other ladies contributed the proceeds of a Fair and several 
boxes of clothing, which have been the means of doing much 
good to the destitute. The State of Maine, remote as it is from 
us in distance, has proved to us in this emergency a stanch friend 
and a ready helper. The Portland Society, through Mr. F. C. 
Moody, has contributed nearly eight thousand dollars to our 
treasury, and from other parts of the State by Gov. Cony, over 
three thousand dollars have been received by the hands of Col. 
Taylor. From several places in other States smaller amounts 
have been given, making in the aggregate, with the donations 
from Boston, Philadelphia, and Maine, the sum of nearly one 
hundred and forty thousand dollars. (See G and II, in Appendix.) 

The clothing made up by the Ladies' Sewing Circle of Boston 



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and that contributed by various persons and places in Massacbu- 
setts, has been of great benefit. Indeed, such has been the 
demand for articles of dress, that there is reason to conclude that 
the attention of the Society might have been sooner judiciously 
directed to the supply of the wants of the people in regard to 
clothing. The destitution in this respect is still deplorable. So 
many houses in the country, with their contents, have been de- 
stroyed, so many persons have been stripped of their wearing 
apparel, and the difficulty of replacing the loss by ordinary 
methods has been so great, that the Society some months since 
directed the purchase of a considerable quantity of shoes, woollen 
goods, and blankets. Twelve thousand dollars were accordingly 
expended in the purchase of these, through the friendly inter- 
vention of Mr, Everett, at Boston, and of Mr. Smith and the 
Executive Committee at Philadelphia; — seventy-five hundred 
dollars in shoes at Boston and forty-five hundred in woollen goods 
at Philadelphia. None of these have yet been received. In the 
mean time the numerous boxes of clothing from the Boston So- 
ciety have, under a discreet management, relieved hundreds — we 
might say thousands — of distressed people, clothed the ragged 
or naked, and touched with pleasure many a downcast heart 
that was ready for joy over little comforts and little acts of kind- 
ness. (See Statement I.) 

The supplies of the Society have been issued to Agents of 
twenty-three counties, within which they have been distributed 
to the people. Reports from these Agents (excepting those of the 
counties of Cumberland, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Polk, and 
Sequatchie), and also reports from the Agents at Knoxville for 
Washington, Sullivan, Greene, Hawkins, and Cocke, have been 
received and are on file with the General Agent. They are gen- 
erally of a very satisfactory nature. In nearly every instance 
the names of the persons or families to whom supplies were dis- 
pensed by the Local Agent are preserved by them in full, the 
amount in pounds of each issue, and the amounts respectively 



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that have been given and sold. A considerable disparity appears 
in tlie returns of different County Agents as to the quantity of 
provisions gratuitously given in comparison with the quantity 
sold. This is owing partly to the greater or less destitution of 
the people of the count)^, and partly to the different dispositions 
and policy of the agents. In some cases humanity required that 
there should be large gratuitous distribution ; in others, more 
abundant means and currency allowed much to be sold. The 
instructions of the General Agent to all the Local Agents were 
in agreement with the plan of distribution recommended by the 
Philadelphia Committee, which this Society approved. This 
plan contemplated that the supplies should be given in all cases 
where the parties were unable to buy, but in all others should be 
sold at prices somewhat above their original cost: and it has 
been observed with a commendable degree of fidelity. At the 
same time it was necessary and proper that a considerable share 
of discretion should be left to the County Agents. (See State- 
ments K and L.) 

Special donations have been made for the benefit of destitute 
refugees at several distant places, as at Murfreesborough, Nash- 
ville, and Cincinnati. The authority given to the Agent at this 
last named place to bestow relief has not been used by him, 
except to a very limited extent. The Pennsylvania Society early 
in the year contributed fifteen hundred dollars of its funds to the 
Nashville Eefugee Aid Society, and to that sum was added ano- 
ther donation of one thousand dollars in October from this Society. 
As the Government gave two-thirds rations to all refugees at 
Nashville, while needy people resident in East Tennessee received 
no aid from that source, it was thought advisable by the Execu- 
tive Committee not to make a larger contribution at that time, 
but it expressed a readiness to give further aid, if necessary. 
Contributions were made at two different times for the relief of 
very destitute families, principally those of soldiers, at Loudon ; 
and a donation of a small quantity of provisions was made to 



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sufferers at Lookout ^Mountain, Ga., wbich failed of its destina- 
tiou, but will be renewed. 

On the 10th of August, Mr. A. G. Jackson having served the 
Society with fidelity, energy, and ability for more th^n four 
months as General Agent, resigned his office, and Eev. E. E. Gil- 
lenwaters was unanimously elected in his stead. Under his con- 
trol and direction the affairs of the Association have been well 
and prosperously conducted. He has labored, and successfully 
so, to perfect order and method in the business of his agency, 
and to place its operations, in view of his diminished means, upon 
a safe and economical footing. It is with pleasure that testimony 
is here borne to his indefatigable attention and intelligent man- 
agement, as well as to the capacity, industry, and faithfulness of 
Mr. David A. Deaderick, who from the beginning of the Society 
has filled the office of Clerk, and to the diligence and usefulness 
of Mr. Jourolnion in promoting the interests of the Society. 

The present condition of things is promising as to the future 
usefulness of the Society and its fulfilment of the purpose of its 
creation. Mr. Odiorne had purchased additional supplies prior 
to the 1st of December, to the amount of about twenty thousand 
dollars. These, with the exception of some packages destroyed 
on the way, and the large stock of shoes purchased some time 
since at Boston, are yet in course of transmission to this place ; 
but there is a prospect of their arrival here during the ensuing 
month. 

The Society, by the considerate and friendly action of the War 
Department, has received free transportation for its supplies from 
the beginning, on the railroads between Nashville and Knoxville. 
Eecently Mr. Odiorne was kindly given permission to send from 
Cincinnati by Government conveyance, free of expense, to Knox- 
ville. This privilege was for several reasons desirable, and will 
prove very beneficial. Unfortunately, in the use of it some pro- 
visions and the woollen goods purchased at Philadelphia were 
burned at Johnsonville, on the Tennessee Kiver, with a large 



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amount of Government stores, by order of the Federal Com- 
mander at that post, to prevent their being captured. 

Mr. A. G. Jackson, who has been intrusted with eleven thou- 
sand dollars for the purchase of woollen and cotton goods, shoes, 
and other articles suitable for distribution to the destitute fami- 
lies of the country, has judiciously made his investments in 
Philadelphia and New York, but some delay is expected in the 
transportation. 

The unavoidable detention of the supplies of the Society on 
the way from Cincinnati left the General Agency for a time 
without the means of distribution. In this exigency it became 
necessary to request the humane aid of the U. S. authorities at 
Knoxville in behalf of refugee families ; and they have given 
such attention to their wants as seemed to be proper and requi- 
site. The number of these unhappy people congregated at this 
place has somewhat varied at different times, but has generally 
averaged several hundreds. Many have come and gone in vari- 
ous directions, and their places have soon been filled by new 
arrivals. Some of the cases of destitution which have thus pre- 
sented themselves for sympathy and relief have been of a very 
distressing nature. Suitable efforts have been made for their 
nourishment and comfort. Medical advice and aid to those of 
them who were sick have been administered under direction of 
the Executive Committee, and a number of benevolent ladies of 
the city have labored with zeal and alacrity to supply their 
wants. A building for their use is now in course of construction 
on the south side of the river by Gen. Tilson, which for several 
reasons it is believed will prove better adapted to their occupancy 
than houses immediately in the town. 

In August last Col. N. G. Taylor, who, since November, 1863, 
had given himself ardently and efficiently to the work of raising 
means for the relief of the people, suspended his active and direct 
labors. Upon several accounts he considered this advisable: nor 
did he think it expedient to renew them until after the excite- 



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ment of the popular mind growing out of the recent Presidential 
election had ceased. It was his intention, at the date of his last 
communications, to enter at an early day upon an extensive tour 
in the duties of his agency, and he was sanguine that his appeals 
for friendly sympathy and benefactions would be attended with 
all the success which could reasonably be anticipated. 

The fact that Col. Taylor initiated this enterprise, and had 
already rendered valuable services towards its general object, was 
sufficient to indicate him at the beginning as a specially suitable 
person for the office to which he was appointed. But there were 
other considerations entitled to weight in favor of selecting hira. 
The serious losses of property which he had suffered by violent 
spoliation during the war, and the comparative destitution in 
which his large family were placed at the home from which he 
was an exile, made hira a fit representative of the large class of 
his fellow-citizens who were in circumstances of trouble and 
want. These same considerations deserved, and no doubt exerted, 
an influence in determining the Committee to extend to him such 
remuneration as should be respectable in amount, and correspond 
with the prominency of the position assigned to him and with the 
necessities of his family, as well as be a proper acknowledgment 
of his zeal, eloquence, and labors. The Association tendered him 
a unanimous vote of thanks at a meeting held on 6th February, 
1865. 

The Executive Committee was increased during the summer 
by the election to its membership of several persons from coun- 
ties east of Knoxville, but now resident here, viz.: Hon. Thomas 
A. R. Nelson, formerly of Washington, Samuel Snapp, of Sulli- 
van, and A. M. Piper, of Greene. The Committee, especially 
those who have been active in it from the beginning of their 
membership, have given a cheerful, intelligent, and zealous co- 
operation in the conduct of the affiiirs of the Association and the 
advancement of its interests. In this commendation, Mr. "White, 
as Secretary, and Mr. Miller, Treasurer, deserve to share. The 



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trust reposed in tlic Conimittce was large and delicate. It was to 
receive and invest a fund of about a hundred and forty thousand 
dollars, contributed by persons in difi'crent and distant States^ 
who had little or no personal acquaintance with them, and to 
issue the supplies purchased with that fund for the benefit of the 
people of all East Tennessee, embracing no less than thirty-one 
counties. This work was to be accomplished in the midst of war, 
even within our own borders; of unusual difficulties in the way 
of transportation, and of a condition of society morally unfavor- 
able to the success of the undertaking. Yet, in the face of all 
the obstacles that have attended it, the work has been prosecuted 
with energy and perseverance; and although not wholly without 
error, yet with such results as, it is trusted, will be satisfactory to 
the public. The harmony of counsel and action among those 
engaged in it has never been seriously marred. As might have 
been expected in the management of so large a fund, intended to 
be benevolent and patriotic, there has been more or less of com- 
plaint and censure of those intrusted with it, from some of its 
beneficiaries, especially concerning the manner of local distribu- 
tion. Unquestionably mistakes have been made in the direction 
of both the general and local agencies. They are, however, una- 
voidable in the conduct of all human affairs. In this case they 
have been promptly amended in some particulars, and in others 
they have been of an unimportant nature and not deserving of 
serious attention. The only losses that have occurred have been, 
with one exception, comparatively small, and principally from 
accident or theft in the transportation of the supplies from Cin- 
cinnati. During Wheeler's raid a small quantity of provisions 
in charge of the Local Agent at Maryville were burned with the 
building in which they were stored. The most serious loss oc- 
curred by fire at Johnsonville. It is hoped that remuneration 
will be made in this instance by the U. S. Government, especially 
in view of the fact that a large proportion of the beneficiaries of 
this Society are the families of Federal soldiers. 
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The fact that the Society has carried on its operations and paid 
all its necessary expenses without drawing to any extent upon 
the funds contributed from abroad, serves to illustrate the method 
of its management. Those funds or their equivalent have all 
been expended in the purchase of supplies of food and clothing, 
so that there has not been the actual loss of a dollar in the trans- 
mission and distribution of all that has been given at a distance 
for the relief of the people. The net receipts from sales have 
furnished a considerable fund, which, after the payment of cur- 
rent expenses, has been applied towards the purchase of addi- 
tional stores, and thus enlarged the ability of the Association to 
fulfil the original purpose of its creation. 

KsoxviLLE, Tenn., Jan. 1, 1865. 

Note. — Since the above was prepared and read before the Executive Com- 
mittee sorrowful tidings have been received of the unexpected decease of Mr. 
Everett, whose name and kibors fill so conspicuous and honorable a place in 
the annals of the Society for the past year. At the Anniversary meeting of 
the Association on the 6th of February, 18G5, the following Resolutions were 
offered by John Baxter, Esq., were unanimously adopted, and ordered to be 
printed with this Report: — 

'•Resolved, That this Society has learned with great regret that the Hon. 
Edward Everett, of Boston, has departed this life; and that while we deplore 
in common with our fellow-countrymen the loss of his eminent talents, patriot- 
ism, and moral worth, we especially sympathize in this national affliction 
because of his ardent, friendly zeal on behalf of the people of East Tennessee 
when, stricken by the hand of war, they were visited by serious and painful 
destitution of the means of sustaining life. 

'^Resolved, That this Society will cherish his memory with gratitude and 
affectionate regard, feeling assured that as the people of East Tennessee are 
true hereafter to themselves and to their past history, they will treasure his 
name as a household word, and build to him in their hearts a monument more 
durable than brass." 



APPENDIX. 



Loudon, March 14, 18G4. 
Rev. and Dear Sir : — 

Tliinking that after our arrival at Knoxville we might not have time 
to prepare a memorandum of the views of the Pennsylvania Relief Asso- 
ciation for East Tennessee in regard to the distribution of their supplies, 
we take advantage of a detention at this point to do so in advance. 

The motives which have influenced the contributors to our fund are of 
a twofold character : First, to testify in the unmistakable language of 
deeds to their admiration for the fidelity of the people of East Tennessee 
to the flag of their country under the hardest trials ; and, secondly, to 
perform an act of Christian charity. 

We are well assured that the East Tennessee Relief Association, of 
which you, sir, are the honored President, are actuated by similar patri- 
otic and humane feelings in undertaking to co-operate with us in this 
labor of love ; and accordingly it is rather with a view of placing on 
record our wishes in this matter than with any idea of trammelling you in 
your good work, that we respectfully recommend the following plan for 
the distribution of the provisions, seeds, clothing, and other necessaries 
DOW on their way to you, and hereafter to be forwarded. 

First, in accordance with the suggestion of your agent, Mr. Hazen, 
with whom we conferred in Cincinnati, we would advise that these sup- 
plies should be sold, and not given away, in all cases where the applicants 
are able to purchase ; and that even when sold a preference should be 
given in the order to be enumerated below. 

Second, that Union families who have suffered at the hands of the 
rebels on account of their loyalty should have the first and largest por- 
tion. After them, other families who have adhered throughout to the 
Federal Government. Next, such as, whatever their past conduct, do 
now adhere to the same ; and, lastly, to the old men, women, and chil- 
dren of such families as now have representatives in the so-called Con- 
federate array. In our view, no part of this bounty was intended for 
secessionists of the fighting age. 



20 

In conclusion, we would suggest that a regular record should be kept 
by your Association of the course which these supplies shall take, with 
a view of ultimately eml)odying its results in a report for the satisfaction 
of the contributors to the fund. 

Hoping that the work which our two associations have undertaken in 
common may tend to draw together by the ties of love your people and 
our people, and to show to the world that while the loyal men of these 
Fnited States of America are determined to crush rebellion, they are more 
than ever united at heart. 

We have the honor to subscribe ourselves, 

Dear sir, yours with much respect, 

FRED. COLLINS, 
LLOYD P. SMITH, 
Commissioners of the Pennsylvania Belief Asso. for East Tennessee. 

Rev. Thomas W. Humes, President of the East Tennessee Relief Associa- 
tion, KnoxviUe, Tennessee. 



B. 



COrSTlES. 



KAME5 OF AGE.VT3. 



Anderson, 


George W. Leath, 


Bledsoe, 


Charles R. Thompson,) 
Isaac Robinson, ) 


Blount, 


Spencer Henry, 


Bradley, 


G. W. Alexander, 


Campbell, 


L. P. Vinsant, "^ 
Reulien Rogers, Act. Agt.,3 


Claiborne, 


W. W. Hollingsworth,| 
Lewis Harmon, 3 


Cocke, 


Rev. William Cureton, 


Cumberland, 


Thomas B. Swan, 


Grainger, 


Joseph Bryant, "(^ 
J. D. Curl, i 


Greene, 


A. M. Piper, 


Hamilton, 


A. G. W. Puckett, 


Hawkins, 


Fred. Mitchell, 


Knox, 


R. D. Joroulmon, 


Marion, 


S. A. Rodgers, 


McMinn, 


John F. Slover, 


Meigs, 


James R. Gettys, 


Monroe, 


John Minness, 


Morgan, 


A. H. Cross, 



BATE OF APPOrNTMKNT. 


April 13. 


June IL 


April 19. 


May 22. 


May T. 


May 4. 


June 1. 


May 28. 


April 9. 


May 4. 


June 18. 


May 4. 


April 9. 


May 28. 


April 27. 


May 14. 


April 13. 


May 7. 



21 



COnNTlEF. 

Polk, 
Kliea, 
Roane, 

Seott, 

Sevier, 

Sequatchie, 

Sullivan, 

Union, 

Washington, 



lips,) 
ay, J 



KAMKS OF AilKNTS. 

C. M. McClary, 
R. J. Gaines, 
Joshua II. Zin, 
John Philipi: 
Joseph Lay, 

D. P. Gass, 

G. W. Heard, > 
H. L. Stephen,) 
John H. Fain, ) 
William C. Snapp, I 
Isaac Bayless, 
Edward H. West, | 
J. J. Brown, i 



DATK OF APPOINTMENT. 



April 30. 


May 25. 


April 19. 


May 18. 


April 9. 


June 18. 


May 4. 


April 16. 


May 4. 



c. 

STATEMENT OF THE INVOICE QUANTITIES AND COST OF SUPPLIES 
BOUGHT FOR THE EAST TENNESSEE RELIEF ASSOCIATION FROM 
THE BEGINNING TO JANUARY 1, 1865. 



ARTICLES. 


A.\IOCXTS. 


VALUE. 


Bacon (176,622 at 13^, 20,071 at 17 






and 171^), average cost 13^ c. and 






17 and"l7^ . . . . 


196,693 lbs. 


$27,028 74 


Sausage .... 


1,710 " 


239 40 


Beans, average cost 5 


10,452 " 


510 76 


Beef, " 14tV 


5,521 " 


770 50 


Coffee, " 40 i 


14,118 " 


5,711 29 


Corn (add 1,600 bags at 56 c. = 






$896), average cost $1 10 . 


3,200 bush. 


4,302 92 


Flour (4,680 bbls. cost $30,815 60, 






and 321 bbls.. cost $3,151 65), ave- 






rage cost $6 58 and $9 81. 


5,001 bbls. 


33,967 25 


Rice, average cost $0 11 


11,233 lbs. 


1,243 33 


Salt, " 2 75 


212 bbls. 


590 00 


Sugar, " 17 . . 


23,338 lbs. 


3,989 69 


Soda, " 8J . . 


42 kegs. 


399 84 


Tea, " 1 53 . . 


191 lbs. 


292 15 


Molasses (438^ galls.), av. cost 65 c. 


10 bbls. 


285 03 


Crushed Sugar .... 


3,730 lbs. 


736 70 


Mackerel 


117 kits. 


286 55 


Cheese 


100 boxes. 


319 99 


Mustard and Pepper 


8 doz. 


5 20 


Farina and Pearl Barley . 


75 lbs. 


5 63 


Corn Meal 


2 bbls. 


10 22 




$80,695 19 



22 
D. 

AMOUNT AND VALUE OF SUPPLIES RECEIVED AT KNOXVILLE TO 
JANUARY 1, 1865. 



ARTICLES. 


AMOUNTS. 


VALUE. 


Flour, cost $6 58 and $9 81 


4,736 bbls. 


$32,129 88 


Bacon, " 13j3 . 


192,296 lbs. 


26,477 68 


Beans, " 5 




9,926 " 


496 30 


Beef, " 14-jV . 




5,214 " 


734 30 


Coffee, " 40^ . 




13,957 " 


5,652 58 


Corn (add bags $775 60), cost 


$1 10 


2,770 bush. 


3,822 60 


Rice, cost §0 11 




10,886 lbs. 


1,197 46 


Salt, " 2 75 




84 bbls. 


231 00 


Snjrar, " 17 




22,129 lbs. 


3,761 93 


Soda, " 9 52 per keg 




39 kegs. 


371 28 


Molasses, " 65 




395 galls. 


256 75 


Tea, " 1 53^ . 




191 lbs. 


293 18 


Crnshed Sugar, cost 19 j 




3,441 " 


679 59 


Cheese .... 




95 boxes. 


304 00 


Mackerel 




117 kits. 


286 55 


Sansage, spoiled 




1,710 lbs. 


239 40 


Corn meal (bought here) 




58^ bush. 


87 92 






1 


$77,022 40 



E. 

AMOUNT AND VALUE OF ISSUES TO THE COUNTIES, TO THE TEN PER 
CENT. FUND AND ALL OTHER ISSUES, TO JANUARY 1, 1865. 





AMOUNT OF 


AMOUNT OF 


AMOUNT OP 


TOTAL 




ARTICLES. 


IS.su ES TO 


ISSUES TO 


OTHER 


AMOUNT OF 


VALUE. 




C0U.VT1E3. 


10 PER CENT. 


ISSUES. 


ISSUES. 




Bacon . 


156,565 lbs. 


21,086 lbs. 


9,867 lbs. 


187,518 lbs. 


$25,819 78 


Beans 


8,191 " 


420 " 


419 " 


8,930 " 


446 60 


Beef 


.3,448 " 


298i" 


760 " 


4,607 " 


634 73 


Coffee . 


12,147 " 


864 " 


417 " 


13,428 " 


5,4.38 34 


Corn 


2,568 bus. 




74 bus. 


2,642 bus. 


739 76 


Flour, cost $6 58 . 


4,096 bbls. 


208 bbls. 


92 bbls. 


4,396 bbls. 


28,925 68 


and S9 81.] 


Sold for 


cash at 


Cbattan'ga 


320 " 




Rice 


6,946 lbs. 


1,281 lbs. 


.38 lbs. 


8,265 lbs. 


3,042 ,30 


Salt 


74 bbls. 


8 bbls. 


2 bbls. 


84 bbls. 


231 00 


Sugar 


18,017 lbs. 


1,322 lbs. 


842 lbs. 


20,181 lbs. 


3,4.30 77 


So.la 


37 kegs. 






37 kegs. 


352 24 


Tea 


41 lbs. 




76 lbs. 


117 lbs. 


179 59 


Molnsses 


390|^ gals. 


5 gals. 




395i gals. 


256 75 


CrM Sugar, sold for 










1,678 76 


Cheese ) , , , 
Mackerel} «''^'* ^"^ 










778 30 


Snufage (Rpoiled) . 










239 40 


Corn Meal 


14 bus. 


41 bus. 




55 bus. 


82 50 


$72,176 39 



Note.— -There is a small quantity of bacon, rice, and sugar on band at the above 
date. This will in part e.vi)lain the disparity between the amount of supplies received 
and that distributed. But there are other reasons for it. The packages were in nu- 
merous instances received as whole when they were defective ; and there was consider- 
able loss in the issue by retail. 



23 
F. 

AMOUNT OF SUPPLIES SOLD AND DONATED BY THE COUNTIES WHICH 
HAVE REPORTED TO JANUARY 1, 18G5. 



C0USTIE8. 


SOLB. 


DONATED. 


Andersou 


$315 53 


$1,359 62 


Bledsoe 










150 88 


223 76 


Blount 










2,V09 69 


1,026 69 


Bradley 










648 23 


1,663 81 


Claiborne 










3,420 02 


1,438 70 


Cocke . 










54 71 


161 50 


Cumberland 










400 08 


1,268 53 


Grainger 










1,381 75 


2,214 59 


Greene . 










1,315 57 


3,378 37 


Hamilton 










209 00 


not given. 


Hawkins (in 


part, 


repor 


t missing) 




493 27 


1,568 86 


Jeftersoii 










265 00 


676 07 


Knox . 










6,766 75 


3,744 70 


Meigs . 










109 73 


940 25 


Monroe 










1,061 84 


767 38 


Morgan 










199 42 


791 51 


Rhea . 










376 03 


1,061 27 


Roane . 










1,263 69 


4,452 89 


Sevier . 










1,187 20 


2,482 58 


Scott . 










1,206 96 


443 17 


Sullivan 










1,034 30 


282 73 


Washington 










1,104 98 


528 36 












$25,674 63 


$30,475 34 



G. 

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EAST TENNESSEE RELIEF ASSOCIATION FUND. 



From Cincinnati, by N. G. Taylor .... 

Two donations from individuals at Cincin., &c., per N. G. T 

From Springfield, Ohio 

From Gov. Cony, Maine, per N. G. Taylor 

From Utica, N. Y 

From Portland, Maine, Society, .... 

From Boston Society to Treasurer, $80,500 00 

to Philada. Society, 10,000 00 

to Ladies' Sew'g Cir., 2,000 00 

" " " expended in shoes, 7,500 00 



$347 00 
55 00 

134 00 
3,518 90 

500 00 
7,641 16 



100,000 00 



Amount carried forward 



,12,196 06 



24 



Amonnt brought forward .... 

From Philadelphia Society: — 
Expended by Messrs. Collins & Smith in 

first purchases by Mr. Odiorne, $8,106 66 

Paid to T. G. Odiorne, Cincinnati, 15,000 00 

Paid to Nashville Refugee Society, 1,500 00 

Paid in purchase of woollen goods and ins., 4,510 00 

Paid to M. M. Miller, Treasurer, &c., 1,200 00 

Paid to Mr. Odiorne in November, 5,867 89 

$36,184 55 

Deduct advance by Boston Society, 10,000 00 



$112,196 06 



From Stamford, Connecticut . . . . . 
From Ladies' Needle Picket, Quincy, 111., per T. G. 0. 



26,184 55 

. 1,200 00 

100 00 

$139,680 61 



H. 

EXPENDITURES OF THE EAST TENNESSEE RELIEF ASSOCIATION 



ABROAD. 
By Messrs. Collins and Smith's purchase by Mr. Odiorne 
By same, per Mr. Odiorne, for freight and insurance* 
By cash paid for services of agents in connection with said 

purchase to Dr. Wm. Rodgers and others 
Cash paid by G. M. Hazen for supplies, as per bill . 
Cash paid by G. M. Ilazen for freight, $4,504 04 ; insur 

ance, $56 90 

Cash paid to G. M. Hazen for services and expenses . 
Cash paid for goods made into clothing by Boston L. S. C 
Cash paid by T. G. Odiorne to July 18, for 

supplies and freight as per bills rendered, $49,404 82 
Cash paid by T. G. Odiorne, as above, to Nov. 30, 27,661 00 



Cash paid by T. G. Odiorne in aid of East Tennessee refugees 
at Cincinnati ........ 

Cash paid l)y Mr. Everett for shoes in Boston, . 
Cash paid l)y Philadelphia Committee for woollen goods . 
Cash paid by same to Nash. Ref Aid Society, $1,500 00 
Cash paid by Knoxville E.\ec. Com. to same, 1,000 00 



$6,322 55 

1,784 11 

310 45 

28,198 55 

4,560 94 

656 00 

2,000 00 



77,065 


82 


51 


50 


7,500 


00 


4,500 


00 



2,500 00 



Amount carried forward .... $135,449 92 

* The account of Mr. Odiorne for this purchase was settled with the Phila- 
delphia Coiiiuiittee. 



25 



Amount bronffht forward 



Cash paid by A. G. Jackson in Philadelphia and New York 
for dry goods and his expenses .... 

Cash paid N. G. Taylor one year's salary as agent 
" " " for one year's travelling expenses, &c 

" " " for gifts gratuitous and otherwise 

Cash paid Jesse E. Peyton, salary and expenses as agent 

Cash paid salaries of agents at Nashville . 



$135,449 92 

11,218 Ifi 

4,000 00 

2,143 94 

570 00 

3,350 00 

801 55 



Whole amount paid for supplies, transportation, etc. $157,534 17 



CONTRIBUTIONS AT KNOXVILLE. 



Received by J. M. Fleming, Secretary, subscriptions, &c. . 
Received by M. M. Miller, Treasurer, from various sources 
Received by T. W. Humes, proceeds of concert by Minstrel 
Company ......... 



Per Contra. 

Cash donations and payments per order Exec. Committee 

" " to Refugees per " " " 

Cash in hands of J. M. Fleming, Secretary 



$336 00 
190 75 

20 50 
$547 25 



$190 75 


20 50 


33(5 00 



$547 25 



TO THOMAS W. HUxMES, CHAIRMAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

In reference to the clothing contributed from Boston and various 
places in Massachusetts, I have to report that the following packages 
were received at this office : — 

1864. July 2.5. 14 boxes and 3 bbls. 
" 29. 10 " 
Aug. 1. 5 " 
Sept. 22. 4 " 
" 27. 1 " and 2 bbls. 

34 " 5 " 

By special order of the Association, one-half of the contents of 29 
boxes and 3 barrels were set apart to certain eight counties east of 
Kiioxville, on account of the greater destitution of clothing among the 



26 

people there resident. A moiety was divided accordingly, as in other 
pro rata distributions, among those counties, and the other half was ap- 
portioned to the other twenty-three counties of East Tennessee. The 
clothing in the three packages which arrived in September was distributed 
among all the counties more equally, and according to the population. 
The portions allotted to the counties of Sullivan, Washington, Greene, 
Cocke, Sevier, Grainger, Knox, Monroe, Bledsoe, Roane, McMinn, Brad- 
ley, Claiborne, and Polk were transferred to their respective agents. The 
remainder, excepting that which is now on hand, has been distributed at 
this place, principally to citizens of counties to which it had been as- 
signed, and who applied for it in person. A record has been kept of the 
names of individuals or families to whom the goods were given, and of 
the articles each received, and a detailed report will be made as soon as 
returns are had from the county agents. 

Respectfully, 

E. E. GILLINWATER, 
General Agent East Tennessee Eelief Association. 
KxoxviLLE, Dec. 31, 1864. 



K. 



AMOUNT PAID TO COUNTY AGENTS. 



COtTNTIES. 


FOR EXPENSES. 


FOR COMMISSIONS. 


Blount 


$221 39 


$373 64 


Bradley .... 






93 23 


23 15 


Bledsoe 






65 20 




Cumberland . 






28 25 


166 86 


Claiborne 






1,548 06 


498 43 


Grainger 






289 82 


486 44 


Greene .... 






13 55 




Hawkins. Report missing. 








Monroe .... 




IIT 05 


181 58 


Meigs .... 






54 50 




Morgan 






89 84 


50 00 


Roane .... 






20 00 


591 65 


Rhea .... 






19 92 


143 73 


Scott .... 






824 71 


165 01 


Sevier .... 






462 06 


366 97 


Sullivan 






20 25 




Washington . 






24 45 


163 42 








$3,952 28 


$3,210 88 



27 



CASH RECEIVED FROM THE COUNTIES, EXPENSES 


DEDUCTED. 










Brought forward. 


$7,421 99 


Blount, 




$2,114 


68 


Knox, 


8,804 74 


Bradley, 




555 


00 


McMinn, 


600 00 


Campbell, 




350 


00 


Marion, 


341 95 


Claiborne, 




1,396 


18 


Monroe, 


863 21 


Cumberland, 




204 


97 


Morgan, 


60 00 


Grainger, 




142 


31 


Rhea, 


216 76 


Greene, 




T59 


50 


Roane, 


752 45 


Hamilton, $209 


of 






Sevier, 


358 17 


it a donation 


for 






Scott, 


384 96 


the c'y. 




418 


00 


Sullivan, 


1,034 05 


Hawkins, 




311 


35 


Union, 


235 35 


Jefferson, 




570 


00 


Washington, 


1,017 11 




$22,090 74 



M. 

CASH RECEIVED AND DISBURSED. 

Received. 



From the County Agents 
" sales of stock 
" sales of 10 per cent, fund 
" other sources 



Disbursed. 

Paid salaries of General Agent and subordinates 
" travelling expenses of General Agent 
" rent of store-house .... 
" general expenses — labor, drayage, &c. 
" expenses of agency at Nashville 
" for stock bought at Knoxville 
" for medical services to refugees . 
" for wood, stewards, &c., for same 
" to Mr. Odiorne, Cincinnati 

On hand ...... 

Profit and loss 



$21,738 02 

14,986 34 

1,190 05 

136 55 

$38,050 96 



$1,935 73 


234 


75 


400 


00 


1,810 


97 


801 


55 


1,292 


94 


954 


29 


318 


95 


22,860 


00 


7,358 


64 


83 


14 


$38,050 96 



28 

RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION 
FOR THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE (CALEB COPE, Treasurer). 

Eeceipts. 

Contributions acknowledged in detail, from week to week, 

in the Evening Bulletin of Philadeli)hia . . . $26,840 30 

Interest on deposit in the Mint 141 37 

Received from Edward Everett 10,000 00 



$36,981 67 



Disbursemevts. 

Siipi»lies purchased through Mr. Odiorne in 

March, 1804 

Eeraittance to Mr. Odiorne . 
Kefugees at Nashville .... 
Woollen goods bought here . 
Paid Treasurer Knoxville Association •. 
Eemittance to Mr. Odiorne . 



$8,106 66 

15,000 00 

1,500 00 

4,510 00 

1,200 00 

5,867 89 



Total acknowledged in statement of E. T. R. A., on page 24 $36,184 55 
Paid Col. Taylor part proceeds of his lecture at Academy 

of Music 200 00 

Advertising, printing circulars, &c. . ... . . 299 60 

Printing Report . . . . . . . . 197 52 

Part of Messrs. Collins & Smith's Expenses to Knoxville . 100 00 



),981 67 



1864. 
April 6. 
May 1. 

14. 
16. 



0. 

EAST TENNESSEE RELIEF ASSOCIATION IN ACCOUNT WITH 
THOMAS G. ODIORNE. 

Paid Keck Sc Shaflfer, bill of bacon 

" W. C. Neff, do. 

" Robert Ray and wife (refugees) . 

" Beaty, Trowbridge & Co., bill of bacon 

" William Clearny & Sons, 300 bbls. flour 

" " Felix Coniierly, drayage 

" " branding and labor on flour 

Amount carried forward .... 



DR 


. 


. $2,520 


42 


. 5,168 


78 


5 


00 


. 2,512 


72 


. 2,149 


50 


15 


90 


1 


50 


$12,373 


82 



29 



1864. 



June 









DR. 


Amount hroufrht forward .... 


$12,373 82 


21. 


Paid J. A. Drake, 200 bbls. flour 


1,370 00 


n 


II 


William Clearny & Sons, 200 bbls. flour 


1,340 00 


It 


II 


drayage 4 loads Boston goods 


1 20 


II 


II 


D. L. Dickenson, 350 bbls. flour 


2,327 50 


II 


II 


" drayage and cooperage 


13 00 


II 


II 


1 load Boston goods 


30 


(( 


II 


Keck & Shaffer, 20 lilids. bacon (drayage) 


8 00 


(( 


II 


Beaty, Trowbridge & Co., 20 libds. bacoi 


1 






(drayage) 


8 00 


11 


II 


W. C. Neff, 20 hhds. bacon 


3,167 73 


II 


II 


Felix Connerly's bill, drayage, sundry times 


25 70 


28. 


II 


E. P. Trenchard's bill, rice 


1,075 43 


31. 


II 


Trowbridge, Beaty & Co., bacon 


3,043 68 


II 


II 


steamboat Collossus, freight 


451 25 


It 


II 


" Goody-friends, freight 


477 00 


3. 


II 


William Clearny & Sons, 400 bbls. flour 


2,780 00 


11 


II 


II 250 


1,762 50 


II 


II 


" " 162 


1,101 60 


6. 


II 


Bare, Harding & Ilowell, 50 bbls. sugar 


2,481 14 


II 


II 


steamboat Lady Franklin, freight (May 28) 


740 94 


II 


II 


Nashville, do. (May 19) 


657 15 


i< 


II 


" Mel Meluotte, do. (May 21) 


467 71 


II 


II 


" Aurora, do. (May 19) 


312 23 


II 


II 


Nymph, do. (May 28) 


301 98 


" 


II 


" Goody-friends, do. (June 1) 


500 00 


II 


II 


do. (June 3) 


100 00 


II 


" 


Insurance on goods — 8 boats 


338 11 


II 


II 


Bare, Harding & Howell, drayage 


2 50 


II 


II 


check book, stamps, stencil, and paper 


5 75 


Y. 


II 


William H. Healy, salt 


550 00 


10. 


II 


Gilmore, Dunlap & Co., to make draft good 


1,948 84 


II 


II 


steamboat America, freight of salt 


67 50 


II 


II 


" Emma Floyd, do. 


382 50 


II 


II 


fr't 50 bags coff'ee 


80 34 


1.3. 


II 


Brown, Butler & Co.'s bill, 50 bags cofi"ee 


3,456 46 


II 


II 


Insurance on Emma Floyd, salt 


4 64 


II 


II 


coffee 


35 00 


II 


II 


" America, salt 


1 92 


II 


II 


steamboat Nymph, freight on 300 bbls. flour 


600 00 


11 


II 
noun 


" " insurance do. 
t carried forward .... 


21 00 


Ai 


$44,382 42 



30 



18G4. DR. 

Amount brought forward .... $44,382 42 

Junen. Paid Clearny & Sou's bill, 300 bbls. flour . . 2,119 45 

" 300 do. . . 2,220 00 

" " " d ray age & cooperage on do. 21 00 

" " steamboat Goody-friends, freight on same . 600 00 

" " " " insurance on same 22 20 

July V. " Mrs. Hutchinson, refugee from Kuoxville . 5 00 

8. " McCulloch & Son, bill of seeds ... 3«i 25 

" " drayage, sundry times .... 1 50 

" " steamboat Lady Pike, freight to Louisville . 5 00 

" " Mrs. Burgees and children, refugees . . 5 00 

" " Mr. Lukins, wife, sister, and child . . 5 00 

Aug. 25. " I. Stevens, 10 hhds. bacon . . . . 1,806 45 

" " steamboat Norman, fr't on flour and bacon . 724 50 

26. " D. L. Dickerson, bill for flour, 321 bbls. . 3,178 15 

" Insurance $5,000 to Nashville ... 50 00 

31. " L Stevens, 10 hhds. bacon .... 1,715 97 

" " Drayage, Boston boxes .... 1 40 

" " Insurance per " Naugatuck" . . . 17 16 

" freight 10 hhds. bacon on do. . . . 108 02 

Oct. 18. " Eli Johnson's bill, bacon .... 1,060 38 

" W. O'Hary, bill hhd. bacon ... 958 46 

" Louis Jacobs, do 1,248 00 

22. " George W. Marshall and wife, refugees . 10 00 
Nov. IT. " Mitchell & Ladd, 20 hhds. bacon . . 3,989 98 

" draft returned to E. E. Gillinwater . .16,000 00 

" Bare, Harding & Howell, 30 bags coffee . 2,332 73 

21. " Gibson, Early & Co., 39 bbls. sugar . . 2,335 46 

" Tweed it Sil)ley, 300 bbls. flour . . . 2,775 00 

23. " Mitchell & Ladd, 20 tierces hams . . 1,102 44 
" M. Bare <fe Co., 50 kits mackerel . . 125 00 
" Proctor & Gamble, 10 boxes candles ... 247 00 

26. " L. H. Sargent & Co , 250 bbls. salt . . 1,023 76 

" " Clara Ryan and seven children, refugees . 10 00 

" Mitchell it Ladd, bill bacon ... 810 05 

" " ^Mrs. Bevy and eight children . . . 6 50 

" " Mrs. Thomson and two children . . 10 00 

" E. P. Trenchard, 1 bbl. sngar . . . 60 16 

" D. Harper & Son, 300 bbls. beans . . 2,024 93 

" " stamps, postage, and paper . . . 2 00 



Amount carried forward 



§93,106 32 



31 



18G4. 

Amount bronp;lit forward .... 

Xov. 29. Paid Lukiiis, wife and child (additional to the $ 
" " dra3'agc, cooperage, and labor on shoes fi 
Boston .... 

31. " iVIrs. Beardsley, refugee 
Pec. 3. " express, 1 package from New York 
27. " " 2 do. 

" " 1 do. 

31. " William Clearney & Son, 200 bbls. flour 
" Baker & Co., 20 bbls. sugar . 
" " Bare, Harding & Howell, 20 bags coffee 



10) 

om 



18G5, 
Jan'j 4. 



16. 

24. 

Feb'y 7. 
(< 

9. 



13. 



21. 



L. H. Sargent & Co., 250 bbls. salt . 

freight on 18 packages from New York 

Gilmore, Dunlap, ft on packages fr. N. Y 

T. Gilpin, 200 bbls. flour . 

Bare, Harding & Howell, 10 bbls. sugar 

L. H. Sargent & Co., 50 bbls. salt 

J. G. Throms, 200 bbls. flour" . 

Clearney & Sons, 100 bbls. flour 

D. L. Dickmin & Co., 200 bbls. flour 

freight on 2 packages from Saugerties, N. T 

Keck & Shaffer, bill 10 hhds. bacon 

McCullough & Son, bill garden seeds 

for stencil (marking packages) . 

Harvy & Drake, bill of oats 

Wm. Glenn & Sons, soda and pepper 

Wilder & Co., onion sets . 

drayage. Eastern goods 

" from ref. room 
stamps, paper, and envelops 
insurance as per bill . . . $907 31 

less previously charged in acc't 490 07- 
balance due you this day .... 



DR. 
$93,10G 32 
5 00 

7 00 

10 00 

1 00 

3 00 

1 00 
1,850 00 
1,108 50 
1,418 10 

978 12 

17 10 

22 00 

1,820 00 

698 65 

195 62 

1,790 00 

900 00 

1,820 00 

3 00 

2,247 75 

70 00 

2 00 
200 09 
223 14 

87 95 
7 05 
2 40 
2 60 



= 417 24 
3,205 24 



$112,167 68 

In the purchase of the above I have bought at the lowest price possi- 
ble, charged all at net cost, and have sent the original bills, receipted by 
the sellers, to the Agent of the E. T. R. A. at Knoxville. I have 
declined any compensation for my services, and have in no case accepted 
any commission for myself from the seller. 

THOS. G. ODIORNE. 



EA 



32 



?T TENNESSEE RELIEF ASSOCIATION IN ACCOUNT WITH 
THOMAS G. ODIORNE. 



1864. 


April 


21. 


May 


17. 

11 




31. 


June 


6. 




10. 




21. 


July 


8. 


Aug. 




Nov. 


16. 




It 




17. 


Nov. 


25. 




(1 


18C5. 


Jan'y 


23. 




3. 



By cash from G. M. Hazen 

draft L. P. Smith, Philadelphia . 
" " on Gilmore, D. & Co. . 

" on " " . . 

" from "Needle Pickets," Quincy, 111., 

draft on Gilmore, D. & Co. . 
" deduction on Lady Franklin's freight bill 
" " S. B. Nymjih, 1 bbl. flour short 

" interest on money loaned, $80 
" cash per express .... 

draft on G. D. & Co. . 
" amt. from L. P. Smith, Philadelphia 
" S. B. Goody Friends, 4 bbls. flour short 

draft on Gilmore, D. & Co. . 
" cash per express .... 

" cash per Mr. Piper 

" "by express .... 



CR. 

$8,569 79 

15,000 00 

10,000 00 

3,000 00 

100 00 

24,000 00 

5 00 

9 00 

80 00 

10,000 00 

16,000 00 

5,867 89 

36 00 

8,000 00 

3,000 00 

2,500 00 
3,000 00 
3,000 00 



18G5. 



Feb. 21. By balance due you this day 

" interest on money loaned in Dec'r 



1865. 
Mar. 3. To cash paid E. E. Gillinwatcr's order 

CiN., March 3d, '65. E. E. 



$112,167 


68 


. 3,205 


24 


20 


83 



},226 07 
3,226 07 



THOS. G. ODIORNE. 



Jiesolulion of the Executive Committee of the East Tennessee Belief 
Association, jMssed Feb. 17, 1865. 

Resolved, That this Committee, in behalf of the East Tennessee Re- 
lief Association, as well as in their own names, tender to Mr. Thomas 
G. Odiorne, of Cincinnati, their most sincere and cordial thanks for his 
jjronipt, faithful, disinterested, arduous, and valuable services as our 
agent; and that wliile we cannot urge him to continue his gratuitous 
labors, it is with regret that we accept his resignation. 



PROCEEDINGS 

OF A 

PUBLIC MEETING AT KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, 

ON THE 

OCCASION OF THE DEATH 

* 

OF THE 

HON. EDWARD EYERETT, 

OF BOSTON, 



WITH THE 



OBITUARY ADDRESSES. 



JANUARY 24, 1865, 



PROCEEDIIiGS IN MEMORY OF EDWARD EVERETT. 



At a public meeting, held at the Court House in Knoxville on 
Tuesday, the 24th instant, on occasion of the death of Hon, Ed- 
ward Everett, on motion of Samuel E. Rodgers, Esq., Hon. S, 
J. W. Lucky was called to the chair, and David A. Deaderick 
appointed Secretary. 

The purpose of the meeting having been explained, Rev. Tho- 
mas W. Humes offered the following preamble and resolutions: — 

Whereas, In the inscrutable but infinitely wise Providence of God, 
by which all men finish their allotted course of time and cease to be on 
earth, Hon, Edward Everett, of Boston, has suddenly departed this life 
and been gathered to his fathers; and it is becoming not only that the 
great and good of our fellow-countrymen should be honored while living, 
but that testimonials of respect should be given to their memory when 
dead: therefore, 

Resolved, That we have heard with sincere and profound sorrow that 
Edward Everett is no more. 

Resolved, That we deplore the loss to the country and the world of 
the presence, the counsels, the example, the voice, and the labors of one 
so wise as a statesman, so judicious in affairs, so capable as a citizen, of 
such culture as a scholar, so eloquent as an orator, and so benevolent as 
a Christian, thus unexpectedly removed in the midst of his usefulness, 
and of his vigorous old age. 

Resolved, That we recognize in the laudable labors of Mr. Everett's 
eventful public life at home and abroad, signalized, as his history is, by 
his Presidency of a University, by his representation of a State in Con- 
gress, and of the United States at a foreign court, by his direction and 
control of the most important Department of the E.xecutive of the na- 
tion, and by his patriotic undertaking to honor the name of Washington, 
to commemorate his worth in "thoughts that l)reatlie and words that 
burn," and at the same time to preserve his home as a national inherit- 



36 

ance, the most gratifying evidences of his rare, superior worth as an 
American citizen. 

Besolved, That we remember with especial pleasure the recent friendly 
and active sympathy of Mr. Everett towards the people of East Tennes- 
see, by which the truth of his patriotism and the sincerity of his Chris- 
tian benevolence have been so well attested, and thousands of destitute 
and suffering families have been relieved. 

Besolved, That his generous and successful interposition in their behalf 
was a fitting deed with which to close a well-spent life — the gentle radi- 
ance with which his declining sun gilded his country's troubled sky; and 
that his memory should be cherished with gratitude by the people whom 
he thus befriended, in the faith and hope that his good work will be 
rewarded by Him who is the Lord of both the rich and the poor. 

Besolved, That we accept this painful dispensation of the Divine Pro- 
vidence without a murmur, as a national bereavement; and are thankful 
that God has given to the country and the race a man of such various 
and excellent endowments, and has prolonged his life with undiminished 
energies and increased influence for good, until, at the advanced age of 
threescore years and ten, he has passed away like a shock of corn, fully 
ripe, gathered in at its season. 

lion. Horace Maynaed seconded the resolutions, and ad- 
dressed the meeting as follows : — 

In seconding the resolutions, I give a compendious expression 
to long cherished sentiments. When I last saw Mr. Everett, at 
his own house, about the middle of November, it seemed impro- 
bable that the nation would be called on so soon to pronounce 
his obituary. I had never seen him more vigorous in health or 
more cheerful in spirits. To all appearance he was likely to 
enjoy the green old age allotted to his more advanced contempo- 
raries of the other continent. His vigor, apparently, continued 
quite to the last, so that when he passed away, he might almost 
be thought to have been translated rather than to have died. 

Coming over from the other century, he had been prominent 
in the public eye for the last fifty years. He and his distinguished 
brother, the late Alexander H. Everett, were born in Dorchester, 
a small town near Boston, the sons of a clergyman. I have seen 
it stated that among his early instructors was Mr. Webster. If 



37 

so, his subsequent labors in prejiariiig a biography and editing 
the works of that great man were but a graceful tribute from the 
pupil to his early preceptor. At the age of thirteen he was 
admitted to Harvard College. The conditions of admission, a 
considerable acquaintance with the Greek and Latin rudiments, 
and a good knowledge of what are called the common English 
branches, indicate an unusual development. At the age of seven- 
teen he graduated with the first honors of his class. Selecting 
his father's profession, he entered the pulpit two years later. 
Young Buckminster had just died abroad, an invalid in quest of 
health, leaving a brilliant reputation, which still lingers in tradi- 
tion and a small posthumous volume. It was no slight distinction 
to him to have been thought worthy to succeed him in the pas- 
torate of the famed Brattle Street Church. Here began Mr. Eve- 
rett's great fame as an orator. Soon he was invited to return to 
the University as Professor of Greek. The invitation he accepted 
on condition of being supported abroad for three years prepara- 
tory to entering upon the duties of the chair. The time was 
spent chiefly at Gottingen, and he returned with the reputation 
of one of the first, if not the first Greek scholar of the world. 
An edition of Buttman's Greek Grammar and a series of lectures 
upon the Greek language and literature, gave promise of how 
much classical learning would be advanced by his labors. His 
personal appearance at this time, as preserved by the painter's 
art, was that of ruddy-visaged youth, with slender figure and 
delicate feature, wholly unlike the pictured representation of his 
later years, so familiar to everybody. 

At this period, he descended into the strong domain of polities. 
Near the close of Mr. Monroe's administration, party lines little 
drawn and party names scarcely pronounced, he was selected by 
the young men, who held him in high admiration, to represent 
the Middlesex District of Massachusetts. This position he held 
for ten years, and until he was recalled by the people of his State 
to fill the office of Governor. After several re-elections, he was 



38 

defeated in 1839, at the close of a memorable canvass, by a ma- 
jority of a single vote in the popular ballot. From 18-il to 1845 
he represented our Government as Minister at the Court of St. 
James. On his return, he was recalled to the University at Cam- 
bridge, as President, and devoted several years to its welfare. 
He subsequently filled the office of Secretary of State, made 
vacant by the death of Mr. Webster, and then took a seat in the 
Senate. The latter he resigned, and retired to the condition of 
private life, but not to the quiet or obscurity that usually sanctify 
it. Here his official career ended, excepting, I believe, a place 
in the electoral college at the recent Presidential election. 

Intensely national in his views, and seeing the perils that 
threatened our nationality, he devoted several years just prior to 
the outbreak of the present war, in endeavoring to avert the 
calamitous omens. I adopt his own words: — 

"I need not say to you, my friends, that no one, in a sphere of private 
influence, has labored harder than I to avert the catastrophe. Thinking 
that I saw, in the violent agitation which prevailed between the two sec- 
tions of the country, the gathering of a storm but too likely to burst 
and desolate the land, I spared no pains to turn aside the peril. After 
the sectional warfare of opinion and feeling had reached a dangerous 
height, anxious, if possible, to bring a counteracting and conciliating 
influence into play, feeling that there was yet one golden chord of sym- 
pathy which ran throughout the land, in the hope of contributing some- 
thing, however small, to preserve what remained, and restore what was 
lost of kind feeling between the two sections of the country, I devoted 
the greater part of my time for three years to the attempt to give new 
strength in the hearts of my countrymen, to the last patriotic feeling, in 
which they seemed to beat in entire unison — veneration and love for the 
name of Washington, and reverence for the place of his rest. With 
this object in view, I travelled thousands of miles, by night and by day, 
in midwinter and midsummer, speaking three, four, and five times a week, 
in feeble health, and under a heavy burden of domestic care and sorrow, 
and inculcating the priceless value of the Union in precisely the same 
terms from Maine to Georgia, and from New York to St. Louis." 

We here remember that, in anticipation of the meeting in this 
city of the Southern Commercial Convention, in August, 1857, 



39 

our citizens, witli the best of fuitb, and to arid something of 
patriotic inspiration and lettered elegance to our necessarily limit- 
ed hospitality, invited Mr. Everett to be present and repeat the 
grand eulogy upon the father of his country. We have not for- 
gotten the coarse and unfeeling assault made upon him in that 
convention, nor that it emanated from the same quarter and the 
same spirit that has brought our present troubles upon us. 

Mr. Everett's well-known attitude indicated him as the fittino- 

o 

candidate for the second place — many thought for the first place, 
and subsequent events have not tended to change this opinion — 
upon the Presidential ticket presented to the American people in 
1860, by those wdio, amidst our dangers, thought they saw a 
chance of escape by adhering to the fundamental idea of the 
Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws. Be- 
tween those who repudiated this idea altogether and those who 
failed to perceive that we w^ere in that extremity of danger, the 
ticket failed, and the sublime proposition remained to be asserted 
by the dread appeal to arms. Since the war began, the govern- 
ment has had no truer friend nor firmer supporter. Far above 
the din of battle rang out the clear music of his silver eloquence, 
vindicating the cause for which the battle was waged, and full of 
encouragement to all hearts engaged in the conflict. And, in my 
judgment, no field of carnage has reported to the nation a severer 
loss than befell us on that Sabbath morning, the 15th of the pre- 
sent month, which saw the light of his counsels forever extin- 
guished, and his words of lofty cheer hushed in the silence of 
death. He had passed the allotted period of threescore years 
and ten — years enough, perhaps, for him, but to our backward 
glance and to our foreboding, they seem quite too few. 

This is not the occasion for extended eulogy upon his character, 
or criticism upon his works — certainly not to assign his true rank 
or the fitting place for him to assume in the awful presence of the 
expecting dead. The time is not yet. The impression of our 
loss is too fresh. I will venture to remark, in a general way, 



40 

upon a few points in which he seems to me to stand out in a 
striking light. He had no specialty. Whatever he attempted 
was done well. His attainments were both general and minute ; 
as large as the statesman's, and as exact as the schoolmaster's. 
Mr, Webster said of him that he had read everything, and re- 
membered everything he read. It is diflGicult to pass judgment 
upon his oratory. The popular standard constantly fluctuates 
according to the prevailing fashion set by the living models that 
happen to be in vogue. As a classic, I am inclined to think he 
will rank with the best English orators. Possibly his oratory 
was more English than American in its moderated tone and 
reserved power. Two features have always attracted my notice. 
Every oration, address, or speech, upon the gravest or the slight- 
est occasion, was always precisely adapted to that occasion, and 
to no other; and, apparently as a corollary, it followed that he 
never used his ideas or his language but once. What was once 
said by him he never repeated. I may add that he alone of all 
our public speakers, betrayed, unconsciously it may be, the pre- 
sence of a foreign audience; resulting, no doubt, from the know- 
ledge that all his principal efforts were reproduced abroad, not 
without respectful attention in the highest quarters. 

The distressed condition of this part of our State has been the 
occasion for displaying another phase of his many-sided character, 
in a series of benevolent efforts on our behalf, at once entitling 
him to our highest gratitude, and reflecting a shining credit upon 
his illustrious name. It is not saying too much to affirm that 
the history of our people during the last four years is one of the 
most remarkable chapters in the history of the race. Enough is 
already known of it to excite the admiration of all friends of the 
country. In Mr. Everett's case it took a practical form, resulting 
in a fund of upwards of one hundred thousand dollars in cash, 
expended with a sagacity and fidelity that, aided by the benevo- 
lent of both sexes among our own citizens, will make thousands 
of humble suflerers bless the memory of their distant and uu- 



41 

known friend. My intercourse with him, in connection with this 
great cliarity, exhibited in him a familiarity with the things of 
every-day life, dollars and cents, the balances and the yard-stick, 
that I confess I did not expect in one whose life had passed in 
the society of scholars and statesmen, and in the closet of the 
student. 

As we follow his retiring form and begin to take account of 
our loss, I cannot help feeling that, from the aggregate of learn- 
ing, the sum total of human knowledge, all that makes up the 
complex idea of civilization, and lends grace to the affairs of men, 
he, in departing, has taken away a larger measure than will in 
like manner be withdrawn by any one he has left behind. I 
therefore second the resolutions. 

Col. O. P. Temple said: — 

It would be presumptuous in me to attempt to deliver a eulogy 
on the great man whose memory we have assembled to honor. 
But, as a member of the Executive Committee of the East Ten- 
nessee Belief Association, having had the good fortune to read 
many of the letters addressed by Mr. Everett to the venerable 
President of that Association during the last twelve months, it 
may not be out of place for me to say something of his most 
noble philanthropy and benevolence. Highly as I admired him 
previously for his great goodness and nobleness of heart, the 
perusal of those letters filled me with increased admiration. As 
soon as the tale of the sufferings of our starving people reached 
him in his far oS home, his whole soul seemed to be absorbed in 
the generous work of furnishing the means for their relief. A 
stranger to our people, at an advanced age in life, and surrounded 
by all the luxuries and comforts that wealth can bestow, one 
would have supposed that he would have sought his ease amid 
his books and his friends, reposing in calm dignity upon his great 
fame, and left to others, younger than himself, the task of dis- 
tributing the splendid donations, raised mainly by his influence, 



42 

for our suffering fellow-citizens. But not so. How earnest he 
was in our behalf, how he sympathized with us in our desolation, 
how the sad tale of weeping mothers and dying children moved 
his generous heart, how anxious to guard against even the sus- 
picion of a misapplication of those benefactions, and how he 
watched the minutest details of their application, even superin- 
tending in person the purchase of supplies, will be seen by these 
letters, if they should ever see the light. AVhat a noble spectacle 
does his conduct present! The whole civilized world was filled 
with his fame, yet nearly one-half of his last year on earth was 
devoted by him to relieving the destitution of a people fifteen 
hundred miles away, scarcely one of whom he had ever known, 
and to whom he was bound by no tie except of a common coun- 
try, a common patriotism, a common humanity, and a common 
relioion. When the terrible desolations of war had visited our 
fertile and hitherto abundant valley, and left our people destitute, 
this great orator and philanthropist pleaded the cause of the 
naked and starving before the people of Boston and Massachu- 
setts. And most nobly did Boston and Massachusetts respond 
to the eloquent appeal. One hundked thousand dollaes were 
bounteously given. Noble Massachusetts! Chill though her 
winds, and ungenial her sun, frost-bound though her soil, and 
her face swept by storms of sleet and snow, yet within there 
beats a heart as warm as if glowing with tropical heat. Who 
shall say hereafter, and especially what East Tennesseean, that 
Massachusetts and Tennessee are not fond sisters, linked together 
by the bonds of affection, and that her people shall not be, through 
weal and through woe, our people? 

Of all the men recently living, Mr. Everett was pre-eminent 
for his honesty and many virtues, as well as for his rare culture 
and great gifts of mind. He stood amid the corruptions of the 
times a proud monument of purity and unselfishness. Although 
he expressed himself freely upon all the great questions that 
have for many years divided the public mind, he did so with 



43 

sucli courtesy, with such dignity and candor, and with such un- 
obtrusive honesty, that he escaped, in a more eminent degree 
than any of his contemporaries, the detraction so common to par- 
tisan strife. He was so pure in his life, and so elevated above 
the atmosphere of the demagogue and mere politician, that even 
his political enemies could point to no word or act of his to pro- 
voke the tongue of calumny. His own words, applied by him 
to the great Washington, are not inappropriate when applied to 
himself, as compared with all the present generation: "He was 

THE GREATEST OF GOOD MEN, AND THE BEST OF GREAT MEN." 

He has passed away, having filled the full measure of his fame. 
But his memory still lives, fresh and sweet, in the hearts of his 
countrymen. And nowhere in the land will it be more cherished 
and canonized than by the people of this beautiful valley and of 
yonder frowning mountains, for whom he did so much, and whom 
he loved so well. In their name, and with a grateful but sorrow- 
ing heart, I cast this humble tribute on his grave. 

Hon. T. A. R. Nelson said : — 

It is my misfortune, Mr. Chairman, not to have had the plea- 
sure of a personal acquaintance with the illustrious statesman in 
honor of whose memory we have assembled; but, having given 
him my ardent support, in 1860, for the Vice-Presidency, and 
had occasion to advocate his merits before the people of Tennes- 
see, I am not ignorant of his world-wide fame. Eloquent as have 
been the remarks of the gentlemen who have preceded me, it is 
not in their power or in mine to do full justice to his exalted 
intellect and moral worth. The contemporary and associate of 
Adams, Webster, Choate, Clay, Crittenden, and others, whose 
names will live forever in the pages of American history, he was 
not surpassed by either, and was the compeer of them all. As 
an orator, he stood unrivalled in the classic elegance of his dic- 
tion and the incomparable versatility of his genius. As a states- 
man, he was renowned for his far-seeing sagacity and his indomi- 



44 

table independence. As a diplomatist, he did honor to our own 
in foreign countries. He thought for himself, and acted for him- 
self, guided by the unerring wish to do right, and fearful alone 
of doing wrong. He was not blown about by "every wind of 
doctrine," but maintained, with steadfast sincerity, the honest 
convictions of his own judgment, when a faithful adherence to 
principle might, for the moment, endanger his popularity or ob- 
scure his fame. Amidst the unhappy dissensions which, for more 
than thirty years, have distracted and divided our country, he 
was the fearless champion of the Constitution, and willing to 
extend to all sections, and especially to the South, every right 
which could be legitimately claimed. In thus acting, he may 
have sacrificed aspirations which he had the right to entertain, as 
there was no office within the gift of the people which he was 
not qualified to adorn. But now that he has passed from among 
us, the "sober second thoughts" of his countrymen will embalm 
his memory in their hearts, and posterity will do him justice. 
With untiring industry and philanthropic zeal, he devoted three 
years of his life to a hopeful effort for reuniting the breaking 
fragments of Union by linking to them a common love for the 
memory of Washington. But, when he failed in this; when, in 
spite of every warning and entreaty, a reckless and unscrupulous 
ambition involved our country, without any just or adequate 
cause, in all the horrors of civil war, he zealously vindicated the 
authority of government to suppress rebellion, and strenuously 
opposed disunion in every and in any form. Already his burn- 
ing words of eloquence shine as gems in works on education, and 
long after his lifeless form shall have mouldered in the dust, the 
studious and aspiring young men of our own and other lands 
will hoard them in the storehouse of memory, declaim them in 
academic halls, and teach them to children's children through 
generations yet unborn. And if America has produced a man 
who, next to Washington, should be held up as an exemplar to 
the youth of our country; as "a burning and shining light" to 



45 

guide tliem iu tlic rugged and luborious pathway of knowledge, 
and as a polar star to direct their most fervid aspirations of patri- 
otism, that man was Edward Everett. 

But while every patriotic and enlightened citizen of America 
and many of the most accomplished inhabitants of Europe, will 
join in mourning the loss of a man so distinguished, may it be a 
source of consolation to his surviving domestic friends to be 
informed that here, amidst the far off" mountains of East Tennes- 
see, there are hearts which were warmed with gratitude to him 
in life, and are sad, very sad, at the unwelcome tidings of his 
death. 

It is knoAvn to all of us, and our countrymen in other sections 
are beginning to know, that the people of East Tennessee have 
suffered greatly, very greatly, because of their devotion to that 
Union for which their fathers fought, and bled, and died in our 
wars with England. For two long years of horror, the people 
were given up to rebel rule; and banishment, confiscation, impri- 
sonment, outrage, insult, and murder were endured with a forti- 
tude which challenges comparison with any heroism displayed 
amidst the direst persecutions that history records. Since the 
advent of the Federal army, East Tennessee has been the "dark 
and bloody ground" where battles have been fought and victories 
won. Sometimes the one army would have possession, sometimes 
the other; and this alternate possession has been of frequent 
occurrence. There is not a county, and scarcely a neighborhood 
within our borders, that has not witnessed the clash of arms and 
the fierce conflict of contending hosts. Eobbers and guerillas 
have infested the country, and the people have been plundered 
on every hand. There is not a family which has not some tale 
of woe and anguish to relate. The rich have been stripped of 
their property, and the poor have, in many instances, become 
beggars and outcasts. Our own people do not know the extent 
of the suffering and misery that have existed, for thousands of 
them are absent in the army, and those at home have a fearful 



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strusr2;le to maintain themselves. During^ these awful contests, 
hundreds of helpless women and children, many of whom never 
before knew what it is to want, have sought refuge within the 
Federal lines at Knoxville. Several persons present, but by far 
the most benevolent and untiring in his exertions, the honored 
mover of the resolutions on your table, have visited them when 
they came, and found them in rags and dirt and filth and wretch- 
edness. We have heard them relate how they live(J in peace and 
happiness at home; how they tilled the ground with their own 
hands, while their husbands and sons were fighting for their 
country; how rebels and robbers came, and with rude hands and 
fierce insults stripped their houses of their contents, often burned 
them to the ground, destroyed their means of subsistence, and 
drove them away, houseless and wanderers upon the face of the 
earth. Unable to obtain employment, by reason of the super- 
abundance of labor, so suddenly brought into this city, many of 
them, in consequence of army operations and the scarcity of food; 
would have died of hunger but for the aid afforded by the Eelief 
Association, an organization voluntarily formed here as the almo- 
ner of Northern bounty. Hundreds of them have, by this 
means, been fed, clothed, and supported, while many have died 
in consequence of their unwonted exposure and fatigue in coming 
here. It is known that when our worthy fellow-citizen. Colonel 
Taylor, moved by sympathy for our suffering people, visited the 
Northern cities last winter, he was seconded in his benevolent 
enterprise by the active, influential, and persevering efforts of the 
noble-hearted Everett, and that, through his influence, the people 
of Boston and other parts of Massachusetts contributed a magni- 
ficent donation of money and clothing to the relief of our needy 
population. 

While we are bestowing the meed of praise upon the illustrious 
dead, let us never forget that the people of Massachusetts, who, 
for more than a quarter of a century, have been represented in 
the South as our natural enemies, cold, heartless, and unfeeling, 



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were tlie first to respond, with cliccrful alacrity, to the Macedonian 
cry which was raised in our behalf, and forwarded, with kindest 
wishes, the most princely benefaction that was ever bestowed, by 
equal numbers, on this continent. I hope it will not be regarded 
as inappropriate to this occasion for me to say, most solemnly, as 
the utterance of every true heart in East Tennessee — God bless 
our benefactors, those noble, generous, and disinterested men and 
women of Massachusetts! May they be blessed with "blessings 
of heaven above and blessings of the deep that lieth under!" 

And how fittingly and appropriate was it that the life of so 
eminent a citizen, whose "heart was open as day to melting cha- 
rity," should close with a crowning eftbrt to alleviate the sorrows 
of a patriotic community, who lived hundreds of miles distant, 
whom he never saw and never expected to see on earth! How 
morally grand and magnificent the spectacle! How touching, 
how thrilling to us its grateful remembrance ! The refined and 
wealthy population among whom he dwelt will not "give sleep 
to their eyes, nor slumber to their eyelids," until they erect a 
beautiful and costly monument to his memory. They will gaze 
upon it with chastened feelings of veneration and respect ; and 
strangers, from every land, will behold it with awe and admira- 
tion; but he will have a grander and more enduring monument 
in the hearts of the humble j^oor; and long after the marble shall 
have crumbled into dust, our mountain mothers will teach their 
children to lisp his name with gratitude and love! We are a 
traditional people, and such a name can never be forgotten. 

But we hope and believe that he has already received a reward 
prouder than the treasures of the world, and richer than the 
affections of a grateful populace. If it be true — and who can 
doubt its truth — that a blissful existence, beyond the grave, is 
reserved for the redeemed of earth; if, after life's weary pilgrim- 
age is over, and after they have crossed the dark and turbid 
stream of death, they are welcomed to green fields and a celestial 
city beyond it, oh! how did his unfettered spirit bound and rejoice 



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when Lis arrival was hailed by the angelic minstrels, and when 
foremost among the happy throng that welcomed him were those 
women and children who shared in the relief he conferred on 
'the people of East Tennessee, but who went before him to the 
better and heavenly country. What a comfort and joy was it to 
his great soul to meet these earthly recipients of his bounty, who 
have cast off their soiled and unseemly garments, and are "clothed 
upon" with the white and spotless raiment of immortality! We 
can imagine him conducted, in a triumphal procession, such as 
earth never saw, into the presence of the heavenly Monarch, and 
listening to the words of the King: "Come, ye blessed of my 
father, inherit the kingdom prepared for j^ou from the foundation 
of the world: for I was an hungered and ye gave me meat; I 
was thirsty and ye gave me drink ; I was a stranger and ye took 
me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick and ye visited me; 
I was in prison and ye came unto me." And then, as with that 
unaffected modesty which characterized him when upon earth, 
he made reply: "Lord, when saw T thee an hungered, and fed 
thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? when saw I thee a stranger 
and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? or when saw I 
thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee?" how would all the 
fleeting and transitory honors which he had enjoyed on earth 
fade into insignificance before his immortal spirit at the answer- 
ing words of the King, worth more to him than all else the uni- 
verse could bestow: "Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye 
have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have 
done it unto me." 

Mr. H. Clay Graham spoke as follows : — 

Gentlemen: I look upon Mr. Everett particularly as the sol- 
dier's friend, and, as I am the only soldier present, it may not be 
inadmissible, since he is no more, for me to mingle my regret 
with yours. 'Tis a national calamity. 'Tis a special calamity to 
East Tennessee. Ko section of country has more reason to be 



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grateful for his services wliile living — none more to lament his 
death. I have seen some men shot down as near to me as these 
two gentlemen on my right hand, and others fall nearer me than 
Mr. Maynard on my left. I have looked with admiration at the 
course, and with pity at the close of countrymen and comrades 
before the war and since ; but never have I indulged more pride 
or experienced more pain than I have realized in contemplating 
the triumphant life and tranquil death of Hon. Edward Everett. 
His life has been so full — was so devoted to the best interests of 
our common country, and so eminently useful to the destitute 
people of your own State, with the sufferings of whom I have 
ever shared my largest-hearted sympathies. One point of cha- 
racter not generally found in men holding such high political posi- 
tions marked his whole career: honor, probity, candor. I could 
not help admiring him for this if I would, and would not if I 
could. As a writer, he was the favorite of my early boyhood; 
his school-books winning me with their worth, and his poetry 
enamoring me with its sweetness and sublimity. I remember 
some of his lines on the Pen, showing his profound enmity against 
monarchies and his devoted attachment to republics, which I used 
to declaim at school when a mere child; and one of those stanzas 
embodies so much power, and pathos, and grandeur, that I still 
love to repeat it : — 

" 'Tis minu to burl the bolts of latu 
Which overwhelm the guilty great ; 
I wield the giant arm that brings 
Dismay and death on tyrant kings." 

The labors and language of such champions of republicanism 
advance and establish the ideas of our nationality; and if more 
of our leading spirits were possessed of the same high-toned 
patriotism, honor, and integrity, the name of this nation would 
be more respected and feared among the despotisms of the old 
world. We should have a government which, how much soever 
it might be envied or despised across the waters, would not be 
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molested by any foreign power ; and when your sons, covered 
with glory, come back to you, and my comrades and I return to 
our homes, we could all be sheltered by our own vine and fig- 
tree, and feel more gratitude and resignation than ever to the 
providence of God, who called Mr. Everett away, and may at 
any time call us. 

Suggestions were then made upon points incidental to the 
meeting by Messrs. Maynard and Baxter, which were concurred 
in, and, on motion of J. M. Meek, Esq., an adjournment was voted. 



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D. A. Deaderick, Secretary. 



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